Don’t you think it’s quite ironic that the subject I’m trying to avoid is being discussed in this post?
I do this on my YouTube feed to keep politics out of my gaming and flat earth content I typically like to watch.
I’ve never really used Twitter. The only exposure I get to it is through reddit and now here. Even that is too much.
I present you mine
censoring k*ll
what is this, tiktok?
ignore covid, oh its here ignore war oh its here
It’s easier to not care. It’s selfish, a bit cruel, it’s literally the least you can do to carry a basic awareness of ongoing truth, but it is easier I imagine to pretend it isn’t happening and just fixate on what’s left when you remove all of that from Lemmy… So just, oops all Linux memes?
I think it’s the opposite. All the outrage on social media just feeds back into itself. It’s an engine fueling disillusionment, not productive change.
The trend on social media is idle outrage, it’s overexposing ourselves to the most devastating and most infuriating information while doing nothing about it. I’ve seen a lot of Gaza footage but i haven’t done anything other than donate e-sims and upvote memes.
I don’t blame anyone for wanting out of that. If you’re not going to do something about politics, then you might as well not let it poison your social media. If you are doing something about politics, then you already know to step out of online flame wars, or you should know.
Of all human emotions, rage is the one that’s best at keeping us engaged, so for-profit social medias feed us rage bait constantly to keep us on their platform, and one great way to do that is through politics. Here on Lemmy, the same is done for internet points. I see no point in either because neither leads to action. In fact there’s incredible danger in being politically angry, we should be politically educated.
Pretty much
Nope. I’ve had a script with almost 100 regex’s that automatically blacklisted around 200 people every time I opened Twitter. Two years in and upwards of 300.000 accounts in the blacklist, I realized that it didn’t even make a dent in dealing with all of the spam I was seeing, and just deleted my account. Best decision ever. I advice you too, to try it out.
It’s perfectly on form for a modern citizen of a Western country to confuse denial and avoidance as inner peace.
It’s undeniably better for you to not worry, but also the ability to not worry is undeniably privileged since it means you’re not personally affected.
Also i just don’t think it’s true that we can separate our issues from the third world’s issues, they are connected, and the very uncomfortable fact is that the connection often is our benefitting from their exploitation. That’s not as true as it once was, colonialism is different now, but it’s still true, i own countless cheap items thatwere manufactured by exploited workers in other countries.
Why are you assuming this person gets all of their news from Lemmy?
I didn’t even reference “this person”, it’s a simple comment on Western culture, just like it purports to be.
i have a bunch of these too. i like politics, just not the us vs them US bullshit.
good on you for making lemmy more bearable on US election season.
The list is missing the words “Poll” and “AI”.
Well the good news is, if you ignore Palestine it will eventually go away.
oof
Add “linux” to that list and your front page will be empty.
No way. There’s always star trek.
And beans
And pessimistic negativity. So much negativity against everything.
Not unjustified but still depressing negativity. You don’t know about something like r/eyebleach (I think that’s the cute one?)?There’s an uncute one?
r/eyeblech i believe
Can’t forget beans.
It’s funny how many Americans don’t realize that there are people living life outside the US that also have access to the internet and Lemmy.
As someone living in an area where I can literally walk into 3 different countries (even if I need to hike a few hours) I cannot wrap my head around that exceptionalism.
If you’re not American then who let you on our internet?
Get your own internet.
It’s a government conspiracy. They did let in all the dirty foreigners just so they can tell you personally: America bad!
Yeah but our elections are also stupidly consequential. It doesn’t help our ego any though.
We’re too insulated to care too much, because it mostly doesn’t affect our day to day lives. And we have a pretty big election coming up in like 6 weeks, so it makes sense that most Americans online would talk about that.
Can’t remember the last time Germanys, Netherlands, Polands or any other election was this much or long in the news.
Not to mention Asian (excluding middle east because they are news non-stop) or African (not affiliated with middle eastern conflicts).Hell even Canads or Mexicos is much of any debate…
God please let us put a fucking leash on these assholes dominating our time. I don’t want to be convinced non-stop that you’re voting in my best interest, I want to see my best interests enacted. I want a representative democracy that allows me to trust that my representatives are going to represent my community as a whole, not some twisting tendril of black or white districts intended to game the system. And it’s so fucking absurd that we have somehow convinced ourselves that our Constitution intended for corporations to be treated as people or for money to be treated as free speech. Millions and billions spent convincing us that millions and billions need to be spent. It’s complete lunacy and we’re all cool with it?
sees propaganda from transnational corps, the Kremlin, and CCP
“Why are the american people assaulting me with this garbage!”
Oh. That means you’ll have some time on your hands for me to tell you about Arch Linux…
I use Gentoo btw
I use Mac OSX so I won’t judge you:-)
LMFAO. This made me laugh out loud.
To be clear, it is fully inclusive of lady-balls as well:-).
Fair fair 😂
Ovaries?
That makes sense - we’ll go with that:-).
Don’t forget game news though. And shitposts.
And naked people.
Way too few of those
Where???
Do go on.
You joke but I’ve actually been considering it. Should I elaborate further or was that not a real offer of information?
Also behold these pictures of dudes in socks
I guess you are speaking of theses beautiful girls, on unixsocks
Hahaha thanks for the chuckle! This got me 😄
*Our lord and savior Arch Linux
btw
BREAKING NEWS: Musk posts misleading video blaming Netanyahu’s Gaza strike on Harris, causing The Donald to call on Vlad to intervene
I would not want to hide posts about Vlad the Impaler
Get it straight. Its Vlad, the Defenstrater.
I think they are okay with content regarding the historic Impaler. They just don’t care too much about the modern day defenestrator.
